Weeping time: good history story and sad failure. The average selling price in today’s dollar of $20,ooo was about half of a non forced sale. Not many Georgians could afford that even without the taxes of today. But today would one buy a slave with all their costs to keep for $40,000 or hire an illegal ?

Thus endth our lesson on why no immigration/documentation plan is in place.

Article is about folks wanting to continue the guilt trip laid on southerners many generations removed from those who participated in slavery. We really don’t need more reminders that us white guys are sentenced to a lifetime of shame for the sins of our predecessors even if the vast majority of our families never owned, bought or used slave labor.

If we are on the path to remove all symbols of Dixie, then why would these folks want to add more identifying the worst of happenings of the mid 19th century?

Yeah, it all ended in 1865. The following hundred years of peonage, Jim Crow, and other legal discrimination after slavery was all hunky-dory. Tell that to those of the 1960’s Civil Rights legislation generation yet alive and kicking—not at all “many generations removed”. The death penalty being disproportionately applied to black Americans continues today. Guess they’re getting what they deserve.

I don’t support removing all symbols of Dixie. Just the glorification of the those and the cause that fought to preserve slavery. Slaveowners fought to preserve their wealth. Non-slaveholders fought to preserve the institution of slavery.

Burry correctly sees many fault lines in our system any of which could cause at least as bad a situation as we went thru a few years back. He also focuses much of the conversation on personal responsibility or the lack thereof in our society today. Lack of personal accountability (no risk) combined with a wide open market full of potential disasters makes for a helluva ride going forward.